LibriVox recording of Adrift on an Ice-Pan, by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Read by Sean Michael Hogan.

This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay by dog team on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)

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Artist/Composer: Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Date: 2009-06-05
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: audiobook; librivox; adventure; memoir; autobiography; sled dogs; dog team; survival

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Arch Stanton - - March 2, 2010
Subject: Exciting true life adventure
An excellent first person account of being afloat, with little hope of survival, on an ice raft and the ingenuity taken to survive forms the centre piece of this work and makes up the biggest chapter. The first chapter can be safely skipped as being a somewhat tedious tribute to the hero and his ancestory. The last part is a recollection of the hero's recovery from a rescuer's viewpoint and adds some new to what has been said already. But is the main section that remains unforgettable of its sort. One or two gruesome moments mean this is probably not recommendable for younger animal lovers.

Reading is very good although the accent adopted for the last part by the reader is less easy to understand.